Respiratory System Disorders and Therapy From a New - Louis Bolk ...

factors: anxiety to meet certain people and situations, stressful life events, memories of
traumatic experiences, viral infections, seasonal changes, family problems, and specific
allergens.
A number of these factors have a mutual affinity. Anxiety, stress, family problems, and
trauma are all awareness-related phenomena. They augment the awareness of the patient
and their nerve-sensory processes. Allergens and seasonal changes (3.1.5.) may have the
same effect by a different route. These factors give an extra impulse within the context
of the constitution of the patient, which unbalances the constitutional dynamic. This may
result in an episode of illness.
In the illness, situational aspects and constitutional aspects reinforce each other when
they have a corresponding dynamic. The equilibrium of homeostasis, which oscillates
around a higher setpoint during remissions in the sense of sections 3.3.1. and 3.3.3., veers
into the dysbalance of an exacerbation (fig. 3.7. and 3.8.). Then the acute symptoms of
the illness develop.